Real Estate
Find Out Where Money Grows On Trees For Up To 80 Years
2018 has been a great year for us global property investors... And it's not over yet. In fact, I'd say...
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Top 5 Global Investments To Suit Any Portfolio
At the Retire Overseas Conference we hosted a few weeks ago in Las Vegas, the question I was most frequently...
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3 Ways To Profit From Panama City’s Property Market
Panama City property values have been impressively resilient over the past 10 years. The global real estate crisis of 2008...
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How I Funded My Early Retirement With Overseas Real Estate
I bought a beachfront home, directly on the sand, for less than US$62,000. After furnishing the solid, 2,000-square-foot house, I...
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Exploring Abruzzo, Italy, To Find The Perfect Place To Live
The decision to buy a house in Abruzzo was an easy one for me—it was figuring out the exact location...
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A Placencia, Belize, Primer: Communities, Costs, And Condos
If Belize has been on your radar, focusing on Placencia couldn't come at a better time. Seventeen miles of white-sand...
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5 Countries Where Real Estate Is Still Incredibly Cheap
Getting onto the property ladder has always been one of the safest and best ways of securing long-term wealth. Buying...
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Why Panama City’s Property Market Is Unlike Anywhere Else
Over the weekend, Lief and I traveled from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where we hosted last week's Offshore Wealth Summit, to...
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10 Best Places To Buy Real Estate Overseas In 2018
If you've been reading these dispatches for any time, you know that I'm all in on real estate overseas. In...
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Puerto Vallarta South: Tranquil Luxury And Enviable Views
Vallarta South—The Town Richard Burton Put On The Map The city of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and its famous Centro and...
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Why My Property Portfolio Is Doubled Down On Diversification
Lief Simon’s Personal Global Property Investing Strategy As longtime readers know, 99% of my investment portfolio is in real estate....
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Top 4 Countries With Real Estate You Should Invest In Now
This Is How You Make Real Money From Real Estate Overseas Yesterday, Kathleen Peddicord laid out the phases of development an...
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The 5 Phases Of Ambergris Caye’s Changing Property Market
I've watched it play out scores of times over the more than three decades I've been paying attention... Demographics on...
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Introducing Durango: Bargain Real Estate In Authentic Mexico
The World’s Best Value Property Market? Durango is my favorite spot for full-time city living in Mexico. In fact, I...
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How To Rent Or Buy Real Estate In Unregulated Markets Overseas
Wait Until The Rum Wears Off… Rum and real estate don't mix. You want to be sober when considering property...
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Italy’s Undiscovered Region That’s Massively Undervalued
Your Own Home In Italy… From 35,000 Euros… Considered the greenest part of Europe, with three national and five regional...
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Real Estate In Bogotá Is A Bargain: But For How Much Longer?
The Next Generation Effect In This Country Is Pushing Property Values Ever-Higher One of the best indicators of a healthy...
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Your Dream Italian Villa Is Now Affordable, Maybe Even Free
Your own medieval castle or Mediterranean villa... free. That's the promise of Italy's Cammini e Percorsi (Paths and Tracks) program,...
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Real Estate In Lisbon: A Golden Opportunity For A Golden Visa
Too Late For Lisbon? The question on many minds at last week's Live and Invest in Portugal Conference was whether...
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These Brazilian Beach Townhouses Can Net You 20% Returns
Net Up To 20% A Year From US$99K Beach Townhouses If you've been paying attention to what I've been reporting...
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Weighing Risk Vs Reward For Long-Term Subsidized Renters
I'm receiving emails and alerts daily from U.K. real estate promoters touting U.S. property investment opportunities to their British investor...
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Is Santo Domingo The World’s Next Big Property Market?
I visited Panama for the first time in early 2000. The United States had just handed over the Canal Zone...
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Our Adventure Retiring And Buying A Home In Tavira, Portugal
Marie’s Amazing Overseas Retirement Adventure In Tavira When my husband and I decided we wanted to move to the Algarve......
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Buying Property In Paris Was One Of Our Best Decisions Ever
The Secret To Timing Your Overseas Property Purchase If I could live anywhere, where would I live? My answer to...
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Your Ticket To Passive Income: Global Property Investing
We had two agendas in Panama City last week. First, we shared all the practical information, collective experience, and hard-won...
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Global Property Investing Made Easy – Here’s How
On stage at last week's Global Property Summit in Panama City, with the help of friends, colleagues, and property experts from around...
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Overseas Property Adventures From Ireland To Paris
"I've told the buyer from Dublin that the other buyer, the gentleman from Cork, is considering by how much he'd...
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Global Property Investment 101: Where To Start
If I were just starting out as an investor today, with little capital and an eye to converting that capital...
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Top 5 Rental Markets In The Dominican Republic Today
For the last four years, we've been touting the Dominican Republic as a place where investors can find quality overseas...
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Building Our Home In Las Terrenas: Best Decision We’ve Made
From the first day of our first visit, my wife and I were enchanted by Las Terrenas. This eclectic, multicultural...
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A Rental Market Overview Of Medellín’s Top Neighborhoods
Recently I saw a report that's important for anyone who wants to get into the lucrative rental market in Medellín,...
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Investing In Panama’s Local Housing Market Pre-Construction
Most pre-construction proposals that pass our desk aren't worth the glossy paper they're printed on. At this week's Live and Invest...
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Finding An Apartment In Medellin’s Booming Property Market
I recently shared a cup of coffee with a couple in their mid-40s living here in Medellín, Colombia. As RJ...
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Bargain Beachfront Property On Brazil’s Fortaleza Coast
Brazil's northeastern coast has had my attention for some time. Today, this sandy stretch is dead center on my radar....
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8 Exclusive (And Affordable) Property Opportunities Earning Up To 18% Per Year
For the past 22 years, I have spent the better part of each year reviewing real estate opportunities around the...
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How To Vet An Overseas Property Purchase (And Avoid Being Taken!)
Due Diligence 101—How To Vet A Foreign Property Purchase A reader recently asked me for specific recommendations for how to...
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4 Best Beaches In Panama: Sun, Surf, And Speculation
Four Best Beaches In Panama (For Both Fun And Profit) One of Panama's greatest assets is its beachfront. This is...
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New Beach Resort Hotel On Ambergris Caye, Belize
The Biggest News To Come Out Of Belize In Memory… And Live And Invest Overseas Readers Are Hearing About It...
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How I Escaped The 9-To-5 And Found My Dream Life Overseas
Tired Of Your Current Life? Imagine A Better One… As we begin 2018 you may be reminiscing about the past...
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4 Foreign Property Markets With Big Dollar-Discounts In 2018
Since the U.S. dollar began gaining strength in 2014, I've written a lot about the resultant "currency discounts" in countries...
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Sizing Up Your Options On Properties In Las Terrenas, DR
If you dream of owning a Caribbean home featuring a spectacular water view close to sandy beaches for strolling and...
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Selecting A Property Manager For Your Overseas Rental
One of the most rewarding things you can do abroad is to own a rental property. I find it enjoyable...
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The Reason David Guetta Moved To Playa Del Carmen, Mexico
"For me, Playa del Carmen is one of the greatest cities of all time..." That's what I told one developer...
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The Strong Dollar Is Diminishing… It’s Time To Diversify
I typically ignore exchange rates when making an investment in another country... especially when making an investment in real estate...
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5 Major Benefits To Owning Foreign Real Estate
We write regularly of the importance of global diversification. However, I understand that, until you've begun taking steps to diversify...
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How Global Property Got Me 120 Times My Initial Investment
In 1995, I made my first real estate investment, a three-flat building in Chicago. I was able to make the...
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Why Laureles Is One Of Medellín’s Top Property Markets
I've written many times to say that the El Poblado sector of Medellín, Colombia, is considered to be the best...
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14 Important Items To Confirm Before Buying Property Abroad
Check These 14 Important Items Before Buying Abroad Last week, we talked about the need to rebalance our investments in the...
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The New Costa Rica? Real Estate In Belize Could Soar Soon
I wasn’t planning on writing about this today, but the excitement ran through my body and came out through my...
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Avoid Recession By Investing In An Overseas Property Portfolio
I've often heard that stock market investing is little more than gambling. And, given the way some people approach the...
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